Echoes of Empire: The Paintings of Mahmud Khan Malek al-Shuʿarā in Late Qajar Iran (1860

Article Article scientifique Article Echoes of Empire: The Paintings of Mahmud Khan Malek al-Shuʿarā in Late Qajar Iran (1860–1900) eng 2025-09-19 2025-10 author Habibi Negar 0000-0003-2498-1758 886252 Moyens communs Histoire de l'Art et Musicologie (ARMCO) 847-866 10.1017/irn.2025.10085 0021-0862 This article investigates the artistic milieu of the Qajar dynasty through a critical analysis of the distinctive and sophisticated style of Mahmud Khan Malek al-Shuʿarā (1813–93), contextualizing his work alongside that of his contemporaries, with particular emphasis on Kamal al-Mulk (1859–1940), the most renowned painter of the period. Through close analysis of selected paintings, this study reveals the layered complexity of Mahmud Khan’s visual language and underscores the broader interplay between Qajar art and European artistic traditions. Although this inquiry does not seek to provide a reading of modern Iranian art, it contends that Mahmud Khan’s oeuvre warrants serious critical attention—especially within non–Persian language scholarship—as a pivotal yet overlooked juncture in Iranian art history and a missed opportunity for articulating a meaningful continuum between Iran’s classical aesthetic heritage and its modern visual expression. Dewey 700 91 Département d'histoire de l'art et de musicologie 3I false 98fc9d64-76ef-44ee-8262-f2b87b9fb0c0 Unité d'histoire de l'art Iranian studies 58 4 c8ba8943-e915-475a-8bbe-bbd8d4f42473 Article (Published version) Public Article_scientifique_from_crossref.pdf 1915979 application/pdf CC BY-NC-ND-4.0 1d658cbf3f913cc9c4e4893289bfd285b85aa1fb47064bbad59b2a615543c363 openAccess Faculté des lettres / Département d'histoire de l'art et de musicologie

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